MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - July 10, 2013) - Hansen Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: HNSN), a global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced that Will K. Weinstein has been appointed as a Director, effective as of July 8, 2013. The appointment increases the Company's board membership to eight, seven of whom are independent. Mr. Weinstein brings to the board over 40 years of experience in the financial services industry.

"Will's extensive financial services expertise will be extremely valuable for us as our EP and vascular businesses continue to grow," said Mike Eagle, Chairman of the Board for Hansen Medical. "We look forward to leveraging his vast finance experience."

Currently, Mr. Weinstein serves as a Financial and Investment Advisor and Money Manager to a number of individuals and corporations active in the equity markets. He is also a limited partner of Conifer Securities in San Francisco. Mr. Weinstein was a Governor of the Midwest Stock Exchange for five years, and also served for five years as a Governor of the American Stock Exchange until its merger with NASDAQ in 1998. Mr. Weinstein was Chairman and CEO of Genesis Merchant Group Securities in San Francisco from 1989 until it was sold in 1997. He then started and managed a hedge fund and two private equity partnerships. Prior to Genesis, he was the Investment and Financial Policy Advisor to the Pritzker family in Chicago. Previously, Mr. Weinstein was the Managing Partner of Montgomery Securities in San Francisco and Chairman of its Investment Policy Committee. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of Oppenheimer and Co. and its partner in charge of trading in the 1970's.

Mr. Weinstein is a member of the board of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in San Francisco, and he recently joined the board of the San Francisco State University Foundation, where he is a member of the endowment committee. Mr. Weinstein's previous board affiliations include DHL Incorporated, Butterfield & Butterfield, Beverly Enterprises, Mt. Zion Hospital, the San Francisco Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the San Francisco Performances, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, the UCSF Department of Prostate Cancer Advocacy Core and the City College of San Francisco Foundation. He was a member of a former California Controller's Advisory Council for Investment and served as the West Coast Chair for Bridging the Rift Foundation.

Over the past several years, Mr. Weinstein has taught at many universities throughout the United States and abroad. This summer will be his tenth teaching "Integrity and Ethics in the Real World" at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a class co-sponsored by the Richardson School of Law and the Shidler College of Business. In addition, Mr. Weinstein had taught "Ethics in Decision Making" at the Graduate Business School at San Francisco State University since 2006; before taking a leave over the last two years. Prior to his duties at San Francisco State University, he co-taught a business ethics class at San Francisco City College with the Dean of the Business School.

"Hansen Medical is at the forefront of innovation in intravascular robotics," said Mr. Weinstein. "I am pleased to be joining the Company at such an exciting time."

About Hansen Medical, Inc.

Hansen Medical, Inc., based in Mountain View, California, is a global leader in intravascular robotics, developing products and technology designed to enable the accurate positioning, manipulation and control of catheters and catheter-based technologies. The Company's Magellan™ Robotic System, NorthStar™ Robotic Catheter and related accessories, which are intended to facilitate navigation to anatomical targets in the peripheral vasculature and subsequently provide a conduit for manual placement of therapeutic devices, have undergone both CE marking and 510(k) clearance and are commercially available in the European Union, and the U.S. In the European Union, the Company's Sensei® X Robotic Catheter System and Artisan Control Catheter are cleared for use during electrophysiology (EP) procedures, such as guiding catheters in the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), and the Lynx® Robotic Ablation Catheter is cleared for the treatment of AF. This robotic catheter system is compatible with fluoroscopy, ultrasound, 3D surface map and patient electrocardiogram data. In the U.S. the Company's Sensei X Robotic Catheter System and Artisan Control Catheter were cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for manipulation and control of certain mapping catheters in EP procedures. In the United States, the Sensei System is not approved for use in guiding ablation procedures; this use remains experimental. The U.S. product labeling therefore provides that the safety and effectiveness of the Sensei X System and Artisan Control Catheter for use with cardiac ablation catheters in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, including AF, have not been established. Additional information can be found at www.hansenmedical.com.

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